The itch for college football is starting to pick up and we are getting updated power rankings, new top 25 polls, and will have plenty of anticipatory conversations as the season approaches.
ESPN has just released their post-spring top 25 Power Rankings for college football and there are some shakeups across the board. The movement is based on what teams showed in their spring games, transfers in and out, and what new coaching staffs have shown they are bringing for the first time.
The top of the board didn’t shock too many people with the top dogs in college football holding serve. They may have slid a spot or two, but, at this point, that slippage is nothing to those teams as long as they are within striking distance.
The Iowa Hawkeyes are one of the teams that did get caught in the shakeup, though. The Hawkeyes were booted from ESPN’s top 25 Power Rankings this time around and are on the outside looking in. In a curious decision, it appears that the substitute is the previously unranked Wisconsin Badgers.
Iowa was previously ranked 25th in ESPN and Mark Schlabach’s initial way-too-early top 25 rankings back in January.
Check out the entire top 25, some thoughts on what is going on with Iowa, and a look at the rest of the Big Ten that finds themselves present.